[Tfug] wxWidgets

[Nate]

I haven't done very much GUI work, but I found Perl + LibGTK2::GladeXML 
+ Glade2 to work really well and fast.

aptitude install perl
aptitude install libgtk2-gladexml-perl
apttiude install glade-2

Create your interface in glade-2, then load the resulting xml file into 
perl and execute, etc.  I don't remember specifically where I learned it 
all, but I'm sure google will find tons of stuff.  At the time, 
documentation wasn't a problem.

Nate

Bexley Hall wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm looking into GUI toolkits for another "quick and dirty"
> project and wonder what your experiences with wxWidgets have
> been like?
> 
> Note, I'm not looking for "pretty", bells and whistles, etc.
> I want something with a small footprint (ideally), good
> "visual" tools (so I don't have to manually "count pixels"
> to place widgets on the screen, etc.), reasonably portable
> *and* not a pain in the ass to code around.
> 
> E.g., I can use Motif as it satisfies all of the above
> (except the "small footprint"  :< ) but it requires a
> fair bit of hand-holding to tie all the code together.
> 
> By contrast, doing things in limbo-tk was almost as
> easy as writing code in "BASIC"!  (and, with a SUPER
> tiny footprint).
> 
> I'm particularly concerned as the wxWidgets documentation appears
> very amateurish.  And, wonder how well their "visual" tools
> *really* work.
> 
> Also, does the library allow you to build "panels" that are smart
> enough to know how to resize themselves?  E.g., can I build a
> dialog and configure it so that if it is "maximized" then
> I want certain geometric layout relationships to be preserved.
> So, for example, the buttons remain equally spaced along the
> bottom edge while a listbox located above them maybe grows
> wider even though the set of radio buttons to it's right stays
> in a fixed geometric relationship...
> 
> (sorry, I should probably send some pix to illustrate)
> 
> Thx,
> --don
> 
> 
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